Read the editorial page of your local paper. It introduces you to opinion and can be terrifically provocative and perhaps a great motivating force for you to get involved in your community, regardless of your political ideology.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don’t have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.

I'm less Pollyanna now. That's probably healthy.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

I wouldn't know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.

It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

I love Jennifer Hudson! She is so lovely on screen. She is so buoyant and youthful off screen as much as on.

My mother was a master juggler. If you ask her, she'll say she was a wreck. There's plenty of screaming that went on in the house, but I think it was necessary just to be heard. There were eight children!

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

Most of my friends in New York are single women or gay men.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

Do we need distance to get close?

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother - and as somebody who's schedule isn't always my own - I don't shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.

The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn't matter to a certain segment of the populace.

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.